Scythe- Karma/Assasin!Reader- On Hiatus

The Daycare

of all the things Y/N was expecting when she woke up, a message from Karasuma telling her to meet at the hospital as soon as possible wasn't one of them. she disentangled her limbs one by one from Karma's as the boy stirred,

"going somewhere?" he smirked tightening his grip around her waist,

"not by choice, but yeah" she slipped out of his arms to fix her hair and open the window, "I guess I'll see you at school,"

she chose to go over buildings for speed, and after last time she didn't want to give anyone the chance to get the drop on her.

she didn't normally wonder what it would be like to be normal, to wake up in a house not full of screaming kids, to be responsible for nobody but herself. it was hard to be dissatisfied with nothing to compare her life to, but as she leapt from building to building her mind flashed through memories of fingers through her hair, a warm body against her own, a sense of peace accompanied with sweet nothings whispered into the air.

did she want to stay with Karma? it seemed like every damn time she had her priorities sorted her world was turned upside down again.

she slid off the roof in front of the hospital to find several members of E class clutching bruised faces, and Koro-sensei a shade of black with veins popping out she had never seen before,

"there you are."

he said it like a fact, an inevitable occurrence, yet his voice was laced with a venom as deadly as her own, and she could feel an old fear slithering through her brain like a parasite.

"how did you get here, Scythe?"

She stood at attention, clasping her hands behind her back- for some reason she felt like she was in trouble, but she would not tremble like a child.

"through the rooftops, why?"

"why."

not a question. not a repeat of her own words either. though she could separate them in her mind, this moment allowed her to see where Koro-sensei ended and the Reaper had once began

"safety. if I walk in the streets and I'm attacked, I can't fight back without drawing attention, in the rooftops I can stay out of sight- the public have no idea I'm there."

"no idea." he was back to yellow now, but clearly the students had messed up, "so how often would you, for example, land on an elderly man and break his leg?"

oh E class was in deep shit

Timeskip

Karasuma had offered to let her take the 2 weeks off that E class was to spend helping in the daycare the old man had run, but it was a welcome break from regular work, even if it didn't improve her chances of assassinating Koro-sensei.

within a day, the children had figured out that she wasn't going to eat them, and one by one they developed a habit of demanding she pick them up, only to fall asleep in her arms.

"damn Isogai, you've basically got yourself a fan club," she laughed at how the class president seemed to be overwhelmed by all the children grasping for his attention as a toddler climbed up her like a tree to sit on her shoulders pulling her hair slightly,

"well its not like you're any better off!"

it was true, and soon enough they developed a system where Y/N stayed on one side of the daycare, letting children sleep around her and scaring any rowdy children to Isogai's side, where he could tire them out.

Karma managed to drop by in between his play performances. one day it took extra long for the mage Okuda's magical chloroform to wear off, and he spent the entire day teasing his girlfriend as she lay under a small mountain of kids. he teased her but he loved the way she would huff when a kid pulled her hair a little too hard, or the cute stretch she did after hitting two hours without movement,